The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-01-27
The dailypress Of last FRIDAY con

The daily press Of last Friday con-
tanned report Of an address said to
have been delivered by Mr.. Thomas
McDougall, in the Hall of the Ohio
House of Representatives en- the even
ing previous We sincerely trust that
the report is erroneous in all essential
features We are unwilling to be-
Eeve that a man of Mr. McDougall's
ability could be induced to present, in
the shape Of argument, such material
as that reported. The theme was
that "The Dow Law Must be Let
Alone" F" The speaker went on to say
that the Law is just the thing; that
we are now on the right track; that
this is the very best method of treat
ing with the liquor question, and so
on. Then, if this is the right kind Of
a law, what could be the gentleman's
objection to improving it?
Again, the speaker said that he was
there in the pay of no one, but repre-
senting himself only. Though why
he should interpolate this expression
is hard to understand in the absence Of
any accusations or insinuations. He
declared-says the report-that 1.-THE
liquor business should stand, and be
held responsible for the evils it pro-
duces." Note that beautiful logic
the liquor business produces but evils,
and we should foster it, and ruin a
great portion of the people, in order
to compel the thing to pay for the
destruction! This should be done,
even if your neighbors accuse you of
becoming allies Of the liquor traffic" "
They'll do it, just as true as it is
fact.
The speaker went so far as to at
tack even local option. declaring that
if carried out, the prisons in the cities
'would not be large enough to hold
the criminals" Note that, as you go
along: Let the criminals run, be-
cause we haye not room enough TO
pen them up, and at the same time
oppose all attempts at moral reforma-
tion! 1t does seem little strange
that Mr.tMcDnugall should 90 all the
way from Cincinnati to Columbu to
meddIe with the work nf the Lagisla-
ture, apparently in the interest Of the
liquor business-if his remarks are
correctly Reported that he should
talk before the people precisely as a
Cincinnati distiller or brewer would
falkland all merely because of the
interest he takes. as citizen IN the
temperance question! The speaker
claims that branding the doggery-
keepers as criminals is "a libel on
Christianity" and cries for a liquor
law which will be endorsed by the
doggery-keepers. Note that logic,
too
He had also heard from Kansas.
Strange that the friends of the dog
gerry interest always get the inside
facts from Kansas, the first thing,
and that they are able to prove clearly
that prohibition in that State Is a
complete failure, and more whisky is
sold there than ever before That
being the case, of course every dog
gery-keeper in Ohio will go in with
the third party Prohibitionists this
year! But we may add that we hear
from Kansas, too, and our adyices are
that the man who says Prohibition
does no good there, simply misrepre-
sents, that is all
Now, why is all this grief apparent
among the friends of the internal
traffic? A great portion of the peo-
pie Of this State demand that local
option shall be local option shall be
local option-no "agents nor monkey
work about it-and that the Legisla-
ture shall stop all trifing and nom
sense. The speech of Mr.. McDougall
shows that he placed very low esti-
mate upon the intelligence of his
hearers. No liquor-dealers' associa-
tion, no mullet-headed beer-jerker,
ever sent out more disgusting batch
Of nonsense. The Republican party
cannot be charged with the response
bility of such stuff. The grand old
party cannot be loaded with such ar
guments (?) and the sooner some of
the aspiring statesmen find it out the
better. We have been accustomed as
Republicans to find fault with the
Third Party Prohibitionists, to accuse
them of lack of political intelli-
gence, and all that. Now comes a
public speaker assuming to voice the
sentiment of the Republican party of
Ohio yet who voices the craftiness Of
the Cincinnati beer-jerkers and ad-
dresses the Ohio Legislature with an
argument which, if used by his own
ten-year-old boy would consign the
child so offending to the parental
wrath. The argument defeats itself
If any change in the Dow Law would
give US free whisky, every beer-mug
in Cincinnati would be waddling to-
ward Columbus to lobby for the
change-and MeDougall's speech
would be upon the blistered lips of
every sinner of them. Who is it that
opposes the amending and strengthen
ing of the Dow Law as practical
temperance measure? None but anti
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